Decorative pocket handkerchief device



Sept. 16, 1958 'v. GOTTLIEB DECORATIVE POCKET HANDKERCHIEF DEVICE FiledOct. 16, 1956 INVENTOR.

' ATTORNEY VICTOR GoTrL/EB Y 9 .EIVZ

nited States Patent Office 2,$l,693 Patented Sept. 16, 1958 DECORATIVEPOCKET HANDKERCHIEF DEVICE- Victor Gottlieli, North Hollywood, Calif.

Application October 16, 1956, SerialNo. 616,175 1 Claim. c1; 2-z79 Myinvention relates generally to. haberdashery and more particularly tohandkerchiefs as worn in the breast pocket of a coat primarily fordecorative or show purposes.

At present it is a practice to utilize a handkerchief of the usualdimensions which is suitably folded and then inserted into the breastpocket of the coatto exposetherefrom a portion of the handkerchiefeither in the. form of a row of triangular pointed ends or morepreferably a relatively narrow strip or band which may be mono grammedand extends across the. width of the pocket substantially parallel tothe top edge thereof.

When originally purchased, handkerchiefs for such display use have beenprofessionally folded and properly ironed to present a more or lessattractive appearance when inserted in the breast pocket, although thebulk of the handkerchief usually cannot be accommodated in the pocketwithout bulging the latter outwardly, thus destroying the neat, flatfront effect of the pocket which is most desirable and in fact essentialin order to artistically display the desired portion of thehandkerchief.

In addition to the unnecessary bulk of the handkerchief with itsattending disadvantages, it is comparatively difiicult for the averageperson to refold the handkerchief after laundering, in the relativelycomplicated manner necessary for the handkerchief to properly fit thewidth of the pocket as well as the depth thereof, with the result thatthe attractive fiat appearance of the originally professional foldedhandkerchief is lost, thus detracting from, rather than enhancing thewearers appearance.

An object of my invention is to provide a decorative pocket handkerchiefdevice which is structurally characterized by a relatively small sectionof handkerchief fabric prefolded and permanently sewed or otherwisesecured in its folded formation to define a flat handkerchief simulatingdisplay element of negligible bulk, and which is detachably mounted on asupport of rigid or semi-rigid material such as plastic, for an example,of a size to be inserted into the breast pocket of a coat and supportthe handkerchief element with a sufficient portion thereof projectingfrom the pocket to present the identical decorative appearance of a fullsize handkerchief without its disadvantages.

Another object of my invention is to provide a decorative hankerchiefdevice in which the handkerchief simulating element may be instantlydetached from its support and laundered with the utmost ease anddispatch as well as be adjusted on the support to project from thepocket a predetermined amount when the support is seating in the bottomof the pocket, irrespective of the depth of the pocket, to thuscompensate for variations in the depth dimensions of breast pockets ingarments of different styles and manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, my invention resides in thecombinations, arrangements and functional relationships of elements asset forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out inthe appended claim.

In the accomanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a view showing in front elevation, one form of decorativehandkerchief device embodying my invention as it appears in the breastpocket of a coat;

Figure 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure1;

Figure 3 is a view of the invention in front elevation;

Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Figure3;

Figure 5 is a view of the handkerchief simulating element detached fromits support;

Figure 6 is a view of the support in front elevation; and

Figure 7 is a plan view on, a reduced scale, of the two-part blank fromwhich the handkerchief simulating element is. constructed.

Referring specifically to the drawings, my invention in its illustratedembodiment broadly comprises a handkerchief simulating element H and asupport S to which the element isdetachably secured by fastening meansF.

The element H is preferably, although not necessarily constructed fromthe two-part blank shown in Figure 7 and is composed of elongatedrectangular sections or strips A and B of linen or other materialsuitable for handkerchiefs. The section A is actually four times thelength of the completed element H when mounted on the support S as shownin Figures 1 and 3, andis hemstitched along one side 10 and along itsends 11, whereas the section B is two times the length of the completedelement and is similarly hemstitched as indicated at 13 and 14.

The section A is provided along its raw edge with a flap 15 whichextends from one end of the section for one half the length of thesection. To assemble the sections A and B, the latter is placed upon thesection A to register therewith along the length of the flap 15, afterwhich the section A is folded in half over the section B along the line16. The flap 15 is now folded along the line 17 to form a finished edgeand is then folded along the line 18 over the portion of the section Apreviously folded over the section B. As shown in Figure 5, the flap 15is now sewed along its free side 19 and ends 20 to the underlyingmaterial, after which the element H which is now three ply, is foldedmedially of its ends along the line 21 to form six ply.

With the fold line 21 as a guide, two of the fastening members F whichare preferably,,although not neces sarily in the form of two-partseparable or snap fasteners, are secured to the flap 15 by sewing orother means. The female parts 22 of these fasteners are sewed apredetermined distance apart to the flap at one side of the fold 21,whereas the male parts 23 of the fasteners are sewed to the flap thesame distance apart at the opposite side of this fold. It will be clearthat when the element H is now folded upon itself along the fold line21, the male fastener parts 23 will be directly opposite the femalefastener parts 22 so that when the parts are snapped together the twoportions of the element H indicated at 25 and 26 in Figure 5 will bedetachably secured together. The portion 25 may have had a suitablemonogram 27 woven or otherwise applied thereto as shown in Figures 1 and3.

The support S is preferably constructed of a rectangular sheet of rigidor semi-rigid material such as clear plastic, so as to be selfsupporting. The length of the support S is approximately equal to thedepth of the deepest pocket found in practice, whereas the width of thesupport is slightly less than the length of the portions 25 and 26 ofthe element H. 1

The support S is provided at one end adjacent to its side edges withrows of openings 30 and 31 which are spaced apart the exact center tocenter distance of the fastening member F and are of sufficient diameterto freely receive the heads of the male fastener parts -23. Thus, withthe fasteners F unsnapped and the support placed between the portions 25and 26 of the element H, the parts 22 and 23 of the fasteners can besnapped together through one of the openings 30 and 31 to detachablysecure the element H on the support S.

The provision of the rows of openings 30 and 31 compensates forvariations in the depth of the breast pocket as found in coats ofdifferent styles and manufacture, so that when the support is insertedinto the pocket P as shown in Figures 1 and 2, to seat against thebottom of the pocket, the desired amount of the element H will bedisplayed above the pocket and will be supported substantially inparallelism with the top edge of the pocket, thus presenting theidentical appearance of a full size handkerchief without thedisadvantages thereof. By unsnapping the fasteners F from the support S,the element H can be laundered with the utmost ease and dispatch andthen reapplied to the support. As the support S is also washable, thedevice can be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition at all times.

I claim:

A decorative pocket handkerchief device comprising: a strip ofhandkerchief fabric material constructed from a two-part blank composedof elongated rectangular sections each of which is hemstitched along oneside and along its ends, with one section being twice the length of theother section and having a flap along its opposite side substantiallythe length of said other section; said one section being folded in halfover said other section and said fiap being folded over said one sectionand sewed thereto to form three ply material which is folded upon itselfmedially between its ends to form six ply; two-part separable fastenerssecured to the material through said flap at such locations for theparts to be snapped together when the material is folded upon itself toform said six ply; and a support of sheath material having openingstherethrough adjacent to one end thereof through which said fastenersare snapped together to dctachably secure the support to the stripbetween the last mentioned folds at a location for the strip to projectfrom a pocket when the support is inserted thereinto to seat against thebottom thereof, whereby the strip will present the decorative appearanceof a full size handkerchief in the pocket.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS1,362,916 Barber Dec. 21, 1920 2,269,511 Biederman Jan. 13, 19422,738,515 Owen Mar. 20, 1956 FOREIGN PATENTS 11,644 Great Britain May19, 1913

